As long as winter hasn’t quite let go, it’s the perfect time to bake warming cakes with apples, cinnamon and cardamom. Scandinavian baking is still full of surprises for me – comforting, inviting and wonderfully homely. Fyriskaka is a Swedish classic: a simple apple cake that can be served warm straight from the tin, with whipped cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Delicious!
Ingredients for Fyriskaka:
- 130 g butter
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom + extra for sprinkling
- 500–600 g apples
- 3–4 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 100 g brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 140 g plain flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
All ingredients should be at room temperature.
Mix 2 tablespoons of the light brown sugar with the cinnamon. Peel the apples and slice them thinly. Toss them with the cinnamon sugar and set aside while preparing the batter.
Melt the butter and allow it to cool slightly (it can still be warm). Stir in the cardamom. Transfer to a bowl and whisk together with the brown sugar. Add the eggs one at a time, whisking until combined after each addition. Sift the flour and baking powder directly into the mixture and whisk just until combined.
Grease a 21–23 cm cake tin with butter and dust lightly with flour, shaking out the excess. Pour the batter into the tin and level the surface. Drain the apple slices from any juice (the juice is not needed) and arrange them in overlapping circles on top of the batter. Sprinkle with the remaining sugar and a little extra cardamom.
Bake the fyriskaka at 175°C for about 30–40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and serve warm if you like, for example with vanilla ice cream.
Enjoy!
Recipe source: ‘Fika’ Anna Brones & Johanna Kindvall.
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